Understanding chronic pain and addiction is the first step in changing the way it’s treated. Our understanding is shaped by the research and expertise of our supporters in the medical community. Among the greatest of these supporters is the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA).

The nation’s leading expert and the Steve Rummler Hope Network’s medical advisory member, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, is interviewed by MoveOn, the largest independent progressive advocacy group in the country.

After years of exaggeration, misinformation and a national epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse, the nation is finally coming to terms with the fact that pain is not the fifth vital sign. This heresy, as I understand it, has existed for close to three decades and, in my opinion, has